Leaving on a Jet Plane

Off to China this morning for the fourth time this year.

Shanghai here we come.

 

Movies! in the Month of August, 2017

With my travel in the middle of the month, I thought I might miss some good films but it turned out that summer releases aren’t that great anyway.  I did fine.  😉

Bleed for This

Die Beautiful

The Innocents

The Founder

The Day Will Come

Everything, Everything

Baby Driver

Anthropoid

Fanny’s Journey

Dancer

Gleason

Paterson

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

A Street Cat Named Bob

The best.

Music! and Movies! (Mainly Movies!) in the Month of January, 2017

My movie and music collection from January, 2017

Hitchcock/Truffaut, a documentary

David Bowie Is, an exhibition

Marcus Miller @ Blue Note Tokyo

Misconduct

The Entertainer, The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Plays at the Garrick

The Fencer

Miles Ahead

The Interrogation

The Lady in the Van

Dirty Grandpa

Eye in the Sky

La passion d’Augustine

The Clay Bird

The Net

Chant d’hiver

Maggie’s Plan

Tecchan’s memorial party @ Blues Alley

Bobby Caldwell @ Billboard Live Tokyo

Un homme ideal

The best movie.  Hands down.

Music! and Movies! in the Month of December, 2016

A little early but here I go with music and movies I went to see this month all mixed together in a chronological order.

My favorite was a Polish film, Warsaw 44, shown as part of the Poland Film Festival, about the Warsaw uprising during the World War II.

The Attorney

The Girl on the Train

The Final Lesson

Every Thing Will be Fine

David Sanborn @ Blue Note Tokyo

Two films, Rose and Warsaw 44, at the Poland Film Festival 2016

The Steve Gadd Band @ Blue Note Tokyo

Florence Foster Jenkins

L’Aura @ Roppongi Birdland

Born to Be Blue

Tamaki Kawakubo and Kzuma Miura @ their wedding

The High Sun

Louder Than Bombs

The Glenn Miller Orchestra @ the Orchard Hall

Fossa Magna @ Sunny Side

Nicky’s Family

Ants on a Shrimp

The Stylistics @ Billboard Live Tokyo

Jaco

John Daversa Small Band featuring Renee Olstead

Land of Mine

Knight of Cups

Smoke

Movies! and Music! in the Month of November, 2016

Taking a break from writing about my trip to Myanmar earlier in November, here is my collection of movies I saw and music events I went to in the month of November.  So much more films than music.

Remember

Concussion

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Julieta

La Femme de la Plaque Argentique

Three different shots for Bridget Jones’s Baby: a regular flyer, a big panel display in a theater involving a “waterfall”, and see how big it actually is.

Inferno

A Bigger Splash

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Everybody Wants Some!!

Miss You Already

Il Capitale Umano

PK

Premiers Crus

Freeheld

Everything Will be Fine

The Childhood of a Leader

So many good films but this one stood out.

And a few music events…

Senri Oe @ Motion Blue Yokohama

Gacharic Spin @ Tokyo Dome City Hall

Nordic Music Trade Fair